Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a Band 5 MHWP within our Lincoln South Community Mental Health Team.

Lincoln's Adult Community Mental Health Transformation Services is a committed, integrated service that strive to provide quality recovery-based support to people with severe and enduring mental health related difficulties.

The post holder would work alongside service users, families, carers and multi - disciplinary team members to co - ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision making about care and treatment. And deliver a set of wellbeing - focused psychologically - informed interventions, aligned to cognitive - behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

The role of the MHWP includes providing person centred assessment, through risk assessment, collaboratively agreeing and coordinating a care plan and providing specific evidence based treatment interventions alongside signposting to and supporting engagement with other professionals and agencies.

Close clinical skills supervision will be provided from an HCPC registered clinical psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist to provide specified psychologically - informed wellbeing - focused interventions.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work within the multi - disciplinary team providing interventions and skills to support individuals to promote good mental health and recovery from severe mental health problems and will work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals within the team including registered nurses, psychiatrists, GP's, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, and Psychologists.

The role of the MHWP includes providing person centred assessment, through risk assessment, collaboratively agreeing and coordinating a care plan and providing specific evidence-based treatment interventions alongside signposting to and supporting engagement with other professionals and agencies.

Develop and practice psychologically informed interventions, working directly with adults in the community

Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals to deliver a set of brief wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions - for example

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.